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Cop Hater

Cop Hater

by EdMcBain (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

The heroes of the city's streets are becoming the hunted. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective is killed. Swift, silent and deadly, someone is picking off the 87th Precinct's finest, one by one. The how of the killings is obvious: three .45 shots from the dark add up to three very dead detectives. The why and the who are the Precinct's big headaches now. With one meagre clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the city's underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: Second Impression
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 03 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 0752857916
ISBN 13: 9780752857916
Book Overview: The first brilliant 87th Precinct novel from one of the true greats of crime fiction Ed McBain won the prestigious CWA/Cartier Diamond Dagger - the first US writer to do so He always receives terrific reviews: 'A masterpiece of crime writing ... I think Ed McBain is brilliant' DAILY MIRROR 'Ed McBain is, by far, the best at what he does. Case closed.' PEOPLE 'Zestful, inventive and utterly compulsive ... Shrewd, funny, tough and so topical that it practically sprints from the page' LITERARY REVIEW 'Ed McBain effectively invented the police procedural... McBain delivers his complex story with panache and real zest' OBSERVER 'Finely tuned prose and wittily ironic characterisation ... It is writers such as McBain who bring the great American urban mythology to life' THE TIMES 'A master storyteller' WASHINGTON TIMES 'Unbeatable ... the finest police procedural series ever...Keep 'em coming, Ed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Author Bio
Ed McBain (1926-2005) was born Salvatore Lambino in New York. He changed his name to Evan Hunter and under that name is known as the author of The Blackboard Jungle and as the writer of the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The 87th Precinct series numbers over fifty novels. McBain was a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and was one of three American writers to be awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.